The Scent of Dust

The Lost Weekend - Charles Jackson

It is 1936, and on the East Side of Manhattan, a would-be writer named Don Birnam decides to have a drink. And then another, and then another, until he's in the midst of what becomes a five-day binge.

"The purest and most terrifying portrayal of a drunk's life. Never have I read a novel more precise in capturing the pure hell and insanity of alcoholism. Gets to the bone, into the marrow; the soul ripped wide open."
—The Scent of Dust

“Marvelous and horrifying. . . . The best fictional account of alcoholism I have read.”
—Kingsley Amis